People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — Cold for Weak Supports. [ARTICLE]

Cold for Weak Supports.

One cold, blustering morning in December, 1864, the late General Mahone’s tent was pitched on a bleak Virginia hillside. He was indulging in a morning nap, when Uncle Davy, his negro body servant, tiptoed in, and, stumbling over something, knocked down the general’s cot, and spilled him on the ground. Springing to his feet, the irate officer seized a sword and gave chase to the flying Davy. The darkey jumped a feflee and, feeling safe, turned hack toward his master, whose notably slender, unclad limbs were shaking with cold, and yelled: “Good Lawd, Massa William, you ain’t trustin’ yo’se’f in dis wind on dem legs. Is you?”